Dylan MacMaster
The Time Traveler
So what do you do when the temperature is in the low 30's and it's raining and snowing? ....well, you certainly don't go out and shoot nightscapes! I took this opportunity to give a try at some lightpainting in a nearby culvert for runoff water. This month's assignment for the photo club I'm in is lightpainting, so I wanted to give a try at something a bit different that my typical night images.
This is actually a combination of two photos. In the first shot I stood at the end of the tunnel to create the silhouette. The second shot was the tunnel where I did the blue swirls walking toward the camera with a flashlight on a string that had a blue plastic water bottle cap on the end. Then still on the same exposure I walked back to the end of the tunnel with an LED flashlight that has 10 different colors that I swept the walls with an orange light. Thanks to Jeff Maltzman for telling me about this very cool $18 purchase.
I learned that if you do this kind of shooting alone, it can be a good workout. For this 2nd shot, once I hit the 10 second delay on the shutter I had to run to the end of the tunnel and start my spin before the shutter opened. Oh, and be very careful when you finish this spin next to the camera so that you don't smash a $1000 camera with a $20 LED flashlight. ;-)
The Time Traveler
So what do you do when the temperature is in the low 30's and it's raining and snowing? ....well, you certainly don't go out and shoot nightscapes! I took this opportunity to give a try at some lightpainting in a nearby culvert for runoff water. This month's assignment for the photo club I'm in is lightpainting, so I wanted to give a try at something a bit different that my typical night images.
This is actually a combination of two photos. In the first shot I stood at the end of the tunnel to create the silhouette. The second shot was the tunnel where I did the blue swirls walking toward the camera with a flashlight on a string that had a blue plastic water bottle cap on the end. Then still on the same exposure I walked back to the end of the tunnel with an LED flashlight that has 10 different colors that I swept the walls with an orange light. Thanks to Jeff Maltzman for telling me about this very cool $18 purchase.
I learned that if you do this kind of shooting alone, it can be a good workout. For this 2nd shot, once I hit the 10 second delay on the shutter I had to run to the end of the tunnel and start my spin before the shutter opened. Oh, and be very careful when you finish this spin next to the camera so that you don't smash a $1000 camera with a $20 LED flashlight. ;-)